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Simon Urschel

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ProfessorPediatrics DeptUniversity of Alberta

Simon Urschel

Professor

Pediatrics Dept

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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47 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 12 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 4.5‐Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support
Pediatric Transplantation · 2026
Prioritizing mentors in a peer-to-peer support program for young adult transplant recipients: a qualitative account of mentors' experience to inform success and sustainability.
Journal of pediatric psychology · 2026
Posttransplant outcomes with prolonged donor heart ischemic time in the pediatric population.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026

All 82 publications

Latest funding

Embarking on a journey to explore the realities of pediatric solid organ transplantation for Indigenous patients, families and communities across Canada
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$382,499
The Canadian National Transplant Research Program: Increasing Donation and Improving Transplantation Outcomes
CIHR · 2012 · Co-investigator
$11,250,000

All 2 grants and awards

82 publications.

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 4.5‐Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support

Shannon Oliver, Holger Buchholz, Darren H. Freed, De Villiers Jonker, AR Joffe, Mahsa Saeidian, Irina Dinu, Simon Urschel, Tara Pidborochynski, Joseph N. Atallah, Charlene M.T. Robertson, Jessica Zvonkovic, Jennifer Conway

Pediatric Transplantation20262 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/petr.70276 PMID: 41618517

Prioritizing mentors in a peer-to-peer support program for young adult transplant recipients: a qualitative account of mentors' experience to inform success and sustainability.

Anthony SJ, Selkirk EK, Lin J, Ajmera F, Liang M, Seifert-Hansen M, Urschel S, Soto S, Boucher S, Gold A, Stinson JN, Ahola Kohut S

Journal of pediatric psychology20261 citations

DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsag021 PMID: 41885836

Posttransplant outcomes with prolonged donor heart ischemic time in the pediatric population.

Oliver S, Conway J, Khoury M, Eurich D, Dubois C, Bedard K, Urschel S, Pidborochynski T, West L, Al-Aklabi M, Jonker D, Freed DH

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.12.002 PMID: 41360267

Neurodevelopmental outcomes for pediatric ventricular assist device and heart transplant patients in the modern Era

Shannon Oliver, Holger Buchholz, Darren H. Freed, De Villiers Jonker, Ari R. Joffe, Simon Urschel, Tara Pidborochynski, Joseph Atallah, Charlene M. T. Robertson, Jessica Zvonkovic, Jennifer Conway

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine2026Open Access

DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2026.1889471 PMID: 42639263

Addressing Healthcare Disparities in Pediatric Thoracic Transplantation: A Blueprint for Change

Jake A. Kleinmahon, Valerie Chepp, Samantha J. Anthony, Jeffrey G. Gossett, Simon Urschel, Christian Benden, Alfred Asante‐Korang, Shahnawaz Amdani

Pediatric Transplantation2026

DOI: 10.1111/petr.70295 PMID: 41810793

A practical approach to ABO-incompatible heart transplantation from the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society (PHTS).

Bansal N, Urschel S, Everitt M, Gokanapudy Hahn LR, Mantell BS, Azeka E, Townsend M, Amdani S, Martinez H, Spinner JA, West LJ

JHLT open2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhlto.2026.100534 PMID: 42057775

A Response to Interpreting the Association Between Psychoactive Medication Use and Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.

Schauer J, Aljohani OA, Cantor R, Fraser A, Haregu F, Hope K, Kirklin JK, Thompson C, Urschel S, Zaim N, Brosbe MS

Pediatric transplantation2026

DOI: 10.1111/petr.70390 PMID: 42423348

Humoral rejection in heart transplantation in the current era.

Sheridan J, Urschel S

JHLT open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhlto.2025.100427 PMID: 41362395

Psychoactive Medication Use in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients: An Assessment of Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes.

Schauer J, Aljohani OA, Cantor R, Fraser A, Haregu F, Hope K, Kirklin JK, Thompson C, Urschel S, Zaim N, Zhao H, Brosbe MS

Pediatric transplantation2026

DOI: 10.1111/petr.70272 PMID: 41603254

Summary of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation consensus conference on emerging understanding of antibodies and antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation.

Kobashigawa J, Zuckermann A, Zeevi A, Barten MJ, Chang PP, Colvin M, Coutance G, Dipchand A, Ensminger S, Farrero M, Habal M, Halpin A, Jackson AM, Manla Y, Muthiah K, Potena L, Reed EF, Schlendorf K, Shah P, Tambur A, Urschel S, Webber S, West L, Youn JC, Patel J, Consensus Conference participants

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation202516 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2025.02.1690 PMID: 40498433

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Simon Urschel

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 4.5‐Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support

Prioritizing mentors in a peer-to-peer support program for young adult transplant recipients: a qualitative account of mentors' experience to inform success and sustainability.

Posttransplant outcomes with prolonged donor heart ischemic time in the pediatric population.

Neurodevelopmental outcomes for pediatric ventricular assist device and heart transplant patients in the modern Era

Addressing Healthcare Disparities in Pediatric Thoracic Transplantation: A Blueprint for Change

A practical approach to ABO-incompatible heart transplantation from the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society (PHTS).

A Response to Interpreting the Association Between Psychoactive Medication Use and Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.

Humoral rejection in heart transplantation in the current era.

Psychoactive Medication Use in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients: An Assessment of Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes.

Summary of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation consensus conference on emerging understanding of antibodies and antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation.

Embarking on a journey to explore the realities of pediatric solid organ transplantation for Indigenous patients, families and communities across Canada

The Canadian National Transplant Research Program: Increasing Donation and Improving Transplantation Outcomes

Frequent collaborators

Lori West

Jennifer Conway

Michael Khoury

Anne Halpin

Lorraine Hamiwka

Tom Blydt-Hansen

Shannon Oliver

Darren Freed

Anne Dipchand

Samantha Anthony

Seema Mital

Upton Allen

Bethany Foster

Daniel Kim

David Nicholas

Joseph Atallah

Mina Matsuda-Abedini

Dean Eurich

Catherine Morgan

Adam Rapoport

Irina Dinu

Christopher Tomlinson

Sara Kohut

Steven Greenway

Jennifer Stinson

Megan Levings

Hartmut Grasemann

Yaron Avitzur

Vicky Ng

Me-Linh Luong

Anique Ducharme

Michel White

Lily Lin

JC Spence

Qingdong Guan

Kathryn Tinckam

Vivek Rao